Re: [Rails-devel] CVS and XCode

[Mark S. <mar...@gm...>]

>
> Well, let's dig into it then. In my mind, the most important question
> is, how do you add new tiles?
>
> The current, rather convoluted, process is to create a new tile with
> Tile Designer, export the postscript file, convert it to SVG and GIF,
> then hand-tweak the SVG and GIF files. Obviously this is sub-optimal,
> but the tile set changes relatively infrequently, so I've just accepted
> the inefficiencies.
>
> If it's relatively easy to create new tiles in your format, I'm not
> opposed to ripping out the current tile sub-system entirely.
>
>
>

The current way I create Tiles is I create the tile definitions is by hand.
I laid out various points around the tile (center of each edge, points in
the hex that are near a side, near a corner, far from side, far from corner,
etc... and the center. Each of the Features of the tiles live either at one
of these points, or extending across two points (like track segments). A
Feature is like a Port, a Revenue Center (City or Town), a Terrain Feature,
etc. Privates are a two-point feature to draw the "track" segment for them.
Revenue values are a feature, Names are a Feature... Basically just about
anything that needs to be drawn on the hex/tile is a feature. One exception
is the Blocked Hexsides, which is a feature of each hex (max 6) that is
drawn AFTER any tile is drawn so that it overlaps the drawn tile. The hexes
that allow only a Green Tile to be placed initially, is drawn as either a
solid yellow hex (like 1835) or a Thick Yellow Frame (like 1830/1856).
Revenue Centers can be towns (whistlestops or small city), or Large Cities
(single, double, triple, quad). The 1835 Hamburg Tile with the tunnel is
something I have not quite resolve how to draw properly yet.

But I do have as part of my existing tile definition base is every tile that
1830, 1835, 1853, 1856 and 1870 use. I would also need to look at 18EU,
18KAAS, and such to see if they have any new ones.

Each Game has a Tile Set specifies the collections of tiles used the game
from the common Tile Definition Sets.

You should be able look athe XML FIles in the Data directory of my code base
and see something about what I am talking about.

Mark